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Sonic Youth's co-founder took her cues from a '60s girl-group but forges a new lane. NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich functions as your antidote to the algorithm in eight tracks to know this week.

All summer, a wide range of hits were in the running for the biggest songs of the season — country singalongs, rap diss tracks, pop kiss-offs and rock epics. But two took the race down to the wire.

Lara Downes is among the foremost American pianists of her generation, a trailblazer both on and off the stage, whose musical roadmap seeks inspiration from the legacies of history, family and collective memory. As a chart-topping recording artist, a powerfully charismatic performer, a curator and tastemaker, Downes is recognized as a cultural visionary on the national arts scene.

We asked 137 jazz journalists to pick their favorite albums that came out this year. Out of over 700 nominees, here are their collective top 50 picks, along with top finishers in the Latin jazz, vocal, debut and reissue categories.

"Outside" sets the tone for Injury Reserve's deeply claustrophobic, delightfully warped experimental hip-hop album.

A wind-powered, tour-de-force from the tenor sax quartet.

Wheatie Mattiasich's dreamy, eerie music could fill a forest cathedral.

Contemporary American composer Charles Peck will be in Columbia as a Resident Composer for the July 24-29 Mizzou International Composers Festival. He…

Morrison released Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl this past week. The recording captures the singer performing his classic album in its entirety for the first time ever. Originally released in 1968, Astral Weeks is widely regarded as one of the best records of all time.

African-Americans in the city have paraded in spectacular regalia inspired by Native American motifs for more than a century. The song of the Mardi Gras Indians exudes joy, defiance — and mystery.